News In A Nutshell

Northern Advocate, 1 April 1937, Page 5

News In A Nutshell

A message from Charlotte, North Carolina, states that a circus lion, aged seven, in -the keeper’s absence, ate some meat packed in canvas bags, which it also consumed. An emergency operation was performed for the removal of the lags from the lion’s stomach and it is expected to recover. A telegram from Bordeaux reports that 10 people were killed and 60 injured when the Paris-Hendaye express hurtled down an embankment ! into a small stream /near Dax. The 1 embankment had ,been weakened by floods. ,’u * * * * The Hon. Eliot Bavis, of Auckland, honorary consul to- Japan, who is touring western Japan, told a. representative of the Kobe Press that he hoped to organise a trade association between Japan and New Zealand to promote reciprocal trade. * * * * Roy Koont bought a used motor car for 150 dollars and found in it a dime (10 cents), coined in 1821. An expert valued it at .450 dollars. * . * * « The Canadian Minister of Trade and ; Commerce, Mr W. D. Euler, stated to- . day in the House of Commons that he j was confident of making satisfactory • j arrangements with Australia and New ; I Zealand. The negotiations were most I amicable.

In a speech at New York to the Japanese Society, the Ambassador to the United States, Mr Hirosi Saito, said Japan was not taking part in an armaments race on land or sea. Her armaments were not disproportionate to her needs. He did not believe that the United States Navy was one of offence. * * * * The 18-years-old dispute between Russia and Rumania over Bessarabia has been ended by the Soviet officially recognising the province as Rumanian territory. It is expected that a Russo-Rumanian pact of mutual assistance will follow, possibly allowing Russians to traverse Bessarabia to assist Czechoslovakia in case of attack. * 9 • • Mr R. H. Nesbitt has tendered his resignation as Australian- Trade Commissioner to New Zealand and accepted the position of chairVnan of the New South Wales Milk Board as from April 16. His colleagues on the Milk Board will be two practical men |n dairy distribution and marketing. The British Government is increasin' 5, the Estimates for the conveyance of mails by air for the current year by £359,000, making the total £1,100,000. .-

The representative member of the Senate for North Dakota, Mr G. P. Nye, has introduced a motion to pro-, hibit the export of arms in time of peace or war. 0 • • • Banquets and receptions have been j arranged in honour of the GovernorGeneral of Canada, Lord Tweedsmuir, who is the guest of President Roosevelt at White House. e * ♦ • Twenty-one new contracts, valued at about £10,000,000, the majority being for the Admiralty, have been booked by Clyde ship-building firms this month. —(8.0. W.). « ♦ * * The flood level in the Fen country continued to fall, through the dry Easter period and yesterday it was the lowest registered for some weeks. The level of the water, however, still stands at a point normally recognised as the danger mark and work is proceeding as a precaution against spring tides.—(B.O.W.). * * * * The Duke of Windsor will go to France at the end of April, according to an announcement from St. Wolfgang, on the beautiful Lake Falkammergat, in the Austrian Tyrol, where he has leased a 25-roomed huu -e.